Bert Shimabukuro's Blog

Jerry Berg decided that the best way to deal with a layoff was to make a 20 minute video ( http://bit.ly/1oouacX ) lamenting how terrible it is to be laid off after 15 years at Microsoft. I personally feel for him as I’ve been laid off twice since the 2008 financial crisis. While his emotions are understandable, putting them out there in a public video was a bad choice.

Most of us use LinkedIn to network professionally, but a colleague recently told me people were using it to check women out. Try looking at my LinkedIn profile, www.linkedin.com/in/bertshima. Look on the right side under “People Also Viewed” and you’ll see a diverse…

Have you ever seen a resume so bad or a candidate doing something so foolish that you wanted to blurt out something that had more obscene than non-obscene words? Of course you have, but if you took the time to provide feedback on every bad resume or poor interview, no work would get done. While most of us don't have the time to do this, I wanted to publicly recognize someone who does. His name is Foster Williams. Foster actively assists…